Harrisburg Baseball Faces off Against Top Seed Kean in NCAA Tournament

Harrisburg Baseball Faces off Against Top Seed Kean in NCAA Tournament
Posted: May 13, 2013

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – The Harrisburg men's baseball team is ready for its first ever trip to the NCAA tournament.  After winning three straight games to go undefeated and take home the North Eastern Atlantic Conference(NEAC) Championship, the Lions will now head to Moosic Pa. to play at PNC Field; usually reserved for the Scranton/Wilkes Barre AAA Professional Baseball team. 

The men are excited and ready to see what they can do on the national stage they worked so hard to get to.  They definitely do not have an easy road either.  The Blue and White start off the 8 team double elimination tournament against the # 1 Seed Kean College.  Kean won the national championship in 2007, and is currently ranked 9th in the nation with a 32-10 record. 
 
Harrisburg has only seen one other ranked team this year and it was very early in the season.  During their spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, our boys played against Manchester College who was at the time ranked 12th in the country.  The Lions played a thriller, but came out just one run short losing 13-12. 
 
Since then, the Lions have had a sixteen game win streak, completed a perfect game, won a conference Championship, and earned the right to go the National Tournament for the first time in the baseball programs short history.  On top of that, first year Head Coach Ryan Bown has helped lead these fine young men from a last place finish the previous year.  We have the makings of a Cinderella story, but there are 55 other teams eagerly hoping to end Penn State Harrisburg's story book season.  Time will tell.  The Lions hold a current record of 26-14. 

Harrisburg Plays Wednesday afternoon at 1:15pm, if they win they will play Thursday at 4:30pm against the winner of Alvernia/Johns Hopkins , if they lose game one they play the loser of that game Thursday at 10:00am.   

All tournament games will be web cast with Live Stats, audio and video. 

Live Stats

Audio

Video

Tournament Central Website Link

 

NCAA Division 3 Baseball Tournament Release and Regional Breakdown

 

The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 56 teams that will compete in the 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. Six teams will compete at four regional sites and eight teams will compete at four regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Thirty-eight conference champions qualified automatically.

 

Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 24-28.

 

DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:

May 15-19

 

Hosted by Rhodes College, Millington, Tennessee

1. Huntingdon

2. Salisbury

3. Millsaps

4. Bridgewater (Virginia)

5. Randolph-Macon

6. Methodist

 

Hosted by Concordia University (Texas), Austin, Texas

1. Linfield

2. Cal Lutheran

3. Texas-Tyler

4. Pomona-Pitzer

5. Trinity (Texas)

6. Texas Lutheran

 

Hosted by Augustana University (Illinois), Moline, Illinois

1. Webster

2. Wartburg

3. Augustana (Illinois)

4. Concordia Chicago

5. Adrian

6. Ripon

 

Hosted by University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Whitewater, Wisconsin

1. St. Thomas (Minnesota)

2. Wisconsin- Stevens Point

3. Wisconsin- Whitewater

4. Case Western

5. Benedictine (Illinois)

6. St. Scholastica

 

Hosted by Misericordia University, Moosic, Pennsylvania

1. Kean

2. Keystone

3. Misericordia

4. Alvernia

5. Johns Hopkins

6. Ramapo

7. Franklin and Marshall

8. Penn State Harrisburg

 

Hosted by the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Harwich, Massachusetts

1. Southern Maine

2. Wheaton (Massachusetts)

3. Endicott

4. Western New England

5. MIT

6. St. Joseph's (Maine)

7. Salem State

8. Daniel Webster

 

Hosted by Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York

1. Ithaca

2. SUNY Cortland

3. Rowan

4. Farmingdale State

5. Neumann

6.  Amherst

7. Rensselaer

8. Moravian

 

Hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana

1. Manchester

2. Marietta

3. Wooster

4. Illinois Wesleyan

5. Washington and Jefferson

6. Thomas More

7. Penn State- Behrend

8. Mount Union

  • Wed, 04/24 | Baseball at Shenandoah W, 3-1 (Final) RC | BX | V
  • Tue, 04/23 | Baseball at Susquehanna W, 14-0 (Final) RC | BX | V
  • Sun, 04/21 | Baseball vs. Penn St.-Abington W, 14-1 (Final - 7 innings) RC | BX | V
  • Sat, 04/20 | Baseball vs. Penn St.-Abington W, 5-1 (Final) BX | V
  • Sat, 04/20 | Baseball vs. Penn St.-Abington W, 7-2 (Final) BX | V
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